InfiniBand

ANSYS Expands HPC Benchmarking Program

... scalability of software from ANSYS on the latest HPC technologies, including new quad-core processors from Intel and AMD, as well as the new ConnectX infiniband adapters from Mellanox. The results reflect the ongoing research and development focus by ANSYS and its key partners concerning software performance o...

InfiniBand in Biological News

Oak Ridge supercomputer is the world's fastest for science

...ance 1.059 + 0.205-petaflops actual performance on HPL benchmark program 182,000 processing cores AMD quad-core OpteronTM 2.3 gigahertz processors infiniband network Cray SeaStar network interface and router 362 terabytes of memory 578 terabytes per second of memory bandwidth 284 gigabytes per second o...

Supercomputer provides massive computational boost to biomedical research at TGen

...2 a partially water-cooled set of 7-foot-tall black monolith computer racks, each with as many as 512 processor cores, and linked by ultra-high-speed infiniband cables was funded in part by a nearly $2 million grant in July by the National Institutes of Health. The grant was in response to a wide range of sci...

InfiniBand in Biological Technology

Small Tree brings InfiniBand to Apple Xserve G5 clusters

Small Tree Communications , a Minnesota firm that makes networking products for Apple servers, has taken the plunge into the InfiniBand market. InfiniBand, a type of low-latency network, is primarily used for supercomputing clusters, where its speed gives it an edge over Ethernet. For Small T...

Chippewa Valley angels invest in network hardware company

...Ethernet ports into a virtual port, Mac OS X drivers for Intel's 10-gigabit Ethernet adapters and optical Ethernet cards, and software that works with infiniband hardware to allow customers to build supercomputer systems out of tightly networked Apple servers. The company is a Minnesota LLC but has several o...